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Croatian PM, foreign minister hold talks with AshtonCroatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic and First Deputy PM and Foreign and European Affairs Minister Vesna Pusic met separately with European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton in Zagreb on Thursday for talks on Croatia's EU accession on July 1 and the situation in the region.

16.05.2013. | News

Government: Fiscal rule has been metThe government in 2012 managed to reduce the budget deficit, increase tax discipline and meet the EU fiscal rule, Finance Minister Slavko Linic said at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday.

16.05.2013. | News

Gov't okays State Auditor's report on inefficient collection of local revenuesThe government on Thursday accepted a report by the State Auditor's Office that warned about the inefficient system of revenue collection in local government units, which has resulted in errors and disparities in the calculation and collection of revenues in various local self-government units.

09.05.2013. | News

Gov't launches replacement of HEP CEO KoracevicThe government on Thursday forwarded a proposal to the supervisory board of the HEP national power provider to replace the current management board chairman, Zlatko Koracevic, and board members Rodoljub Lalic and Tomislav Seric and to appoint Seric as the successor to Koracevic, according to a press release issued by the government's public relations office after the cabinet's closed door meeting.

09.05.2013. | News

Government okays draft of entrepreneurship development strategyThe government on Thursday endorsed a draft strategy for the development of entrepreneurship from 2013 to 2020, with the aim of increasing by 40% the gross added value per employe in micro and small businesses by 2020.
  09.05.2013. | News

Gov't proposes hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation billThe government sent to parliament on Thursday a bill on hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation to facilitate the obtaining of concessions and improve legal security and flexibility in oil and gas investment projects.

09.05.2013. | News

Investments are key to recovery, says Prime MinisterThe decline in investments is the basic reason for the crisis and re-launching them is the key to recovery, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Tuesday at the final presentation of the government's measures to encourage investments and restructure the economy as part of the ProInvest project.

07.05.2013. | News

PM vows upgraded railway between Rijeka and Hungary by 2020Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, who on Friday visited the seaport of Rijeka, together with European Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas and Croatia's Transport and Infrastructure Minister Sinisa Hajdas Doncic, said that he was sure that by the end of this decade the Port of Rijeka would offer state-of-art port facilities that would connect this Croatian Adriatic city with Central Europe.
  03.05.2013. | News

Commissioner: No option to connect Croatia's south has been prioritised yetEuropean Commission Vice President and Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas, who was on an official visit to Croatia on Thursday, said that no solution had yet been selected regarding the best way to connect the south of Croatia with the rest of the country.

02.05.2013. | News

PM: Government won't change its coursePrime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Thursday said that he supported the right to be unsatisfied and to protest but he said the government will not change its course and that "there is no way I will push the country into debt bondage".

02.05.2013. | News